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Software Version Control in PDM/Works

Software Version Control in PDM/Works

Software Version Control in PDM/Works

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I just had a conversation with a co-worker of mine who writes the software for our products.  He uses version control software to document his changes.  We were curious to see if anyone uses PDM/Works for software version control.  Is there anyone out there?  The developers of PDM/Works had to use some sort of revision control for thier code.  They must have at least thought about it.  Just curious.  Thanks in advance.

Pete Yodis

RE: Software Version Control in PDM/Works

I suppose in theory this might work but probably wouldn't be an ideal or advisable way to go.  Something like Visual SourceSafe (if one's using MS development tools) is probably best suited to manage versions of software code.

In Visual Basic for instance an application actually can consist of a number of different files for things like forms, modules, and the like.  All of these files would need to be checked in individually to PDMWorks because it's not really setup to understand those kinds of relationships in the VB project.  As I said though one could probably make do with it.

Actually it's not a bad idea (kinda cool really).  I might take the opportunity to try it next time I'm wearing my "application developer" hat as I don't have Visual SourceSafe myself.  I'll be certain to post about it if/when I do give it a shot.

Chris Gervais
Sr. Mechanical Designer
Lytron Corp.

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